2013-2014 Awarded Fellowships

Long-Term Awards

DIBNER DISTINGUISHED FELLOW IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYValerie Traub, Professor, University of MichiganMapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Anatomy, Cartography, and the Prehistory of Normality

FLETCHER JONES FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED FELLOWJames Simpson, Professor, Harvard UniversityTaking Liberties: How and Why “Liberties” became Liberty in Early English Modernity

LOS ANGELES TIMES DISTINGUISHED FELLOWFrederick E. Hoxie, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignPacific Cosmopolitans: Indigenous Leaders in an Imperial Age

Lyle Massey, Associate Professor, University of California, IrvineWoman Inside Out: Gender, Dissection, and Representation in Early Modern Europe

FELLOWS IN THE CALTECH-HUNTINGTON PROGRAM FOR THE STUDY OF MATERIALITIES, TEXTS, AND IMAGESStefanie Sobelle, Assistant Professor, Gettysburg CollegeThe Architectural Novel: Literary Construction Sites in American Fiction

EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESEARCH EXECUTIVE AGENCY MARIE CURIE FELLOWSandra Rebok, Research Associate, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Alexander von Humboldt and the Globalization of Science: Networks of Knowledge between Germany and the United States in the 19th Century

ELEANOR SEARLE VISITING PROFESSOR IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AT CALTECH AND THE HUNTINGTONPeter Westwick, Assistant Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaA History of the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-2013

Short-Term Awards

Rafaela Acevedo-Field, Assistant Professor, Whitworth University

Portuguese and Spanish Crypto-Jewish Families before the Inquisition in 17th-Century Mexico

One month

Maria Jose Afanador-Llach, Doctoral candidate, University of Texas, AustinThe Geographical Imagination of Imperial Dissolution: Discourses of Political Economy and Knowledge about Nature in New Granada, 1780–1830One month

Seriality, Singularity, and Celebrity: Pictures in Motion from 1680 to 1810

Five months

Charles Bradford Bow, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of EdinburghThe Ethics of War in the Age of Revolution: Enlightenment and Violence in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Stanhope Smith, 1775–1815Three months

Cali Buckley, Doctoral candidate, Penn State UniversityPaper and Ivory: Female Anatomical Models and the Control of Knowledge from the 16th to 18th CenturiesOne month

Reynolds after Rubens: Femininity and Flemish Painting in 18th-Century British Art

Two months

Noam Maggor, Postdoctoral Scholar, Vanderbilt University

Brahmin Capitalism: Gentlemanly Bankers, Urban Populists, and the Origins of the Modern American Economy

One month

Jean-Christophe Mayer, Research Professor, French National Centre for Scientific ResearchReading Shakespeare’s Readers: A Cultural History of Reading Shakespeare from the 16th to the 18th CenturyTwo months

Carla Mazzio, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Counting on England: Numbers, Nations, and the Drama of Mathematics in the Age of Shakespeare

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